ThanksVladimir and David, I tried "-static" without "-static-libgcc" and "-Wl,-Bstatic" and it worked fine. My test sample that uses program option and single threaded works fine with the above change. But my other application that is multi threaded (using boost thread API) and uses program option still segfaults. When I try to add "libpthread" and "-lboost_thread-gcc41-mt" in linking I start getting segfaults. LDFLAGS= -static -L/u/neetug/Projects/performance/perfstat_cluster/lib -lpthread -lboost_program_options-gcc41-mt -lboost_filesystem-gcc41-mt -lboost_system-gcc41-mt -lboost_thread-gcc41-mt -lrt Appreciate you help Regards, NG ________________________________ From: David Kaplan <davkaplan@gmail.com> To: boost-users@lists.boost.org Sent: Mon, March 22, 2010 11:29:26 AM Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [program-options] static linked example segfaults for exception

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g++ testprogramoptions.o -static-libgcc -Wl,-Bstatic -L/u/neetug/Projects/performance/perfstat_cluster/lib -lboost_program_options-gcc41-mt -lpthread -o testprogramoptions

This is not the best way to link statically. Did you try just -static

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option, without -static-libgcc and -Wl,-Bstatic?

Or you could try: -l:libboost_program_options-gcc41- mt